
The modern history of Korea (pt.1) w/ Ju-Hyun Park
The East is a Podcast
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The Koreans Are Organizing a Committee for Ation of Crene Independence Anda
When the emperor announces his surrender via radio on august fifteenth, that's a very big it's commemorated in both the d p r k and r ok to day as liberation day. People are ready to decolonize. In some cases, they're going ahead and seizing japanese control lands by themselves. And i think that's going to very deeply shape both the outcomes on either side of division and also the ultimate result that, you know, we now have a partition that has lasted for, at this point, like, almost 80 years.
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